iSeries
The IBM iSeries platform is one of the most adaptable and robust available on the market today, and houses many mission critical applications. NetIQ offers a flexible approach to address multiple security issues facing iSeries data and application access. As a result, end users can simplify and automate many routine security tasks. Hundreds of customers protect thousands of their servers with NetIQ iSeries Security Solutions for iSeries, allowing them to ensure operational integrity, manage service levels and risk, and comply with policies and regulations.
Business Problem
The iSeries platform often processes some of the most important data within an organization, yet default configurations within iSeries servers do little to maximize its security potential. Tracking and controlling access to your iSeries servers is important because of multiple points of entry which could lead to a compromise of business-critical data at worst, or reduced performance or availability, at best. Many controls, including detailed audit logging at the file and field level, are not possible with the native tools.
The NetIQ Solution
With NetIQ, administrators can monitor multiple iSeries security threats and assess configurations and vulnerabilities in a more automated fashion, which means lower risks and better performing assets. NetIQ iSeries solutions enable you to proactively and easily protect your iSeries servers, assure the performance and availability of services run from iSeries platforms, while improving productivity through secure and streamlined user administration. In addition, NetIQ helps in demonstrating compliance to regulatory compliance requirements, such as Sarbanes-Oxley and PCI DSS, for your iSeries servers.
- Security Management – Real-time alerting on security breaches and policy violations that you may not be aware, even if you frequently review iSeries journals
- Configuration Management – Assessing, auditing and reporting on iSeries servers to identify security vulnerabilities, policy exceptions and other exposures and flaws
Key Features
- iSeries platform protection. NetIQ Security Solutions for iSeries allows you to quickly lock down your OS/400 and i5/OS with strong, granular access controls. You get secure user administration that simplifies the process of — and reduces the time and effort associated with — user profile and password synchronization across multiple iSeries servers.
- Incident detection and response. NetIQ Security Solutions for iSeries notify administrators whenever someone uses an invalid password on your iSeries server, which may signal an unauthorized attempt to gain access. In your hands is the power to identify when system auditing has been activated or deactivated, or when the level of auditing has changed. You can configure responses to both malicious attacks and security policy violations to keep your assets secure.
- Configuration and change assessment. NetIQ iSeries management solutions provide more than 200 individual reports on operating system changes, user profiles, security violations, exit points and object authority changes. With NetIQ, you can report on iSeries servers that are out of alignment with known security baselines and assure the integrity of your systems.
